Back Tracking...Our First Thanksgiving

Our first Thanksgiving was AMAZING! We got up a little early, put on our "gobble" shirts and our snazzy new blue jeans (courtesy of Aunt Pammie)...


Lauren

Logan

Lathan

loaded up the Explorer and headed off to visit family.

Our first stop was at Maw Maw's house where the food was, as usual, DELICIOUS! We visited for a few hours and then headed back North. When we got to Grammie's, Aunt Pammie had costumes ready for the babies. (When her first grade class made Pilgrim and Indian outfits for their school play, Miss Roberts worked on a little project of her own!)...


Lathan the Indian

Lauren the Pilgrim

and Logan, the very serious Pilgrim!

Of course the food there, too, was DELICIOUS and a great way to end our perfect day. We had so much to be thankful for and felt very blessed to have such wonderful family to share it with!

Cuties

Just being cute!

We see more and more of the babies personalities each day. It pretty clear to me that we have some pretty cool kids on our hands!

Lathan rolls to the Christmas Tree every chance he gets. His favorite thing to do is to lick the presents!

Caught ya!!!

Lauren LOVES the camera (& mirrors)!

Logan ALWAYS has a smile!

I'm behind on my posting so this week I hope to squeeze a few dated ones (like our first Thanksgiving and trip to the Christmas tree farm) in with the recent ones. I spent over 4 hours last night organizing my photos from the past month which is usually something I do every couple of days (so that it doesn't take a full night of work). Hopefully I can get all caught up this week so that I can get back on track.

What have we been up to that has gotten us off? Nothing major, just little things like cutting teeth (Lathan now has 2 bottom "buds"), eating more solids, and making sure each baby gets lots of love!

And so here is the first of my dated postings...

The Making of Our Christmas Card:

We chose the weekend before Thanksgiving for our "photo shoot". I tacked a black cloth behind our bed for the back drop and since the babies were unable to sit unassisted we called for reinforcements...Grammie, Aunt Pammie, & Gail. The three of them sat behind the cloth and held each baby from behind...

We handed the babies a strand of white Christmas lights, turned off the overhead light and began taking pictures, all of which turned out TERRIBLE! We had a hard time getting all three to look up enough and usually at least one was crying...

So we had to cheat a little! We took individual pictures of the babies and then imported them in to good ole' Photo Shop. The end result...

Merry Christmas!!!

They Just Keep Growing!!!

It is amazing how much our babies have grown these past few months.

Lathan 6/17/06 (Almost two months old) This was his first bath at home...

This was Friday night (7 months)...

This was taken on July 18th, not too long after Lauren came home. She was almost 3 months)...

This was Lauren yesterday!!!

And this was Logan on his 3 month birthday...

And here he is tonight...

And this one is from the night we first had Lathan home (June 15th)...

And Lathan tonight...

Nothing preemie about them now!!!

Madison

On Tuesday, we had a playdate with Madison. She was a great helper feeding, holding and playing with the babies all afternoon long. What a sweetie!!!

Lauren & Madison

Lathan & Madison

Logan & Madison

Bananas!!!

The babies are becoming more and more interested in people food. The past two times we have been out to dinner they have studied us eating.



Based on their new interest, Grammie got us these new fruit feeders and the babies LOVE them! Each day this week, as a snack, I have filled the little mesh baggies with pieces of bananas and the babies have sucked them dry (kind of gross and messy but it sure does make them happy)!

Lauren Digs In!

Logan

On Monday, while Lauren was sleeping, I sat the boys in their highchairs and let them play with their bottles.

Lathan

And just for fun, I let Logan try a sippy cup (obviously we aren't ready yet but with a little more practice it shouldn't be much longer!

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Messy Missy

Happy Lathan!

Dad went to the store today and bought more fresh fruit for them to try. Although they'll miss out on turkey for their first Thanksgiving, they may get to indulge on a little fruit salad!!!

And food isn't all we're in to these days...sometimes our toys are just as tasty!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Out to dinner...

Once a week, each week since the babies have been home, The Pool's treat us to dinner. We have recently been going out to restaurants which is a real treat...getting out of the house makes us feel so normal!!! Tonight was extra special, my Grandma came to town and we all bundled up and headed to Bucca di Beppo.

The babies as usual did very well and had a blast being passed around the table!

Lauren & Uncle Mark

Lathan & Roger

The babies ate out also, but instead of Italian they dined on Gerber.

Logan & Grammie, Lauren & Gail

Lathan & Roger

Gerber seemed good enough until the adult food came. Logan really wanted to try a little marinara!

Or just a little of Dad's water!

He was praying that something may accidentally end up in his mouth.

Lauren & Mommy

The girls sat on one side.

Boys on the other!

Lathan, Roger & Daddy

Logan munched on Uncle Mark's finger for dessert!

Lathan & Daddy

Lauren took a power nap on Roger's shoulder.

Logan REALLY wanted a taste of water!

He was determined!

Logan & Uncle Mark

Lathan thought the water looked good, too!

After a night of fun, we bundled the babies back up and headed home.

Thanks Roger and Gail for a really GREAT evening!!!